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3TAT UICTORZCM ; r-- r- v ,0
COLUMBIA. MQ. ; 5201 -- V
TIm Ynr o. 171 1. tnnl Marninti! It's Thursday. ln7 .7. I'PT 2 Sections 24 Pases 15 Cents
' Can- ban- 9
ordinance
still waits
for decision
By Pat BdUoghaBBen
Missomian staff writer
Two years ago today Columbia voters
approved an ordinance requiring
deposits on throwaway beverage
containers, but the so- call- ed " can- ban- ,"
locked in a lawsuit, never has
been enforced.
Since December the case has awaited
a decision from Circuit Judge John
Cave. Because of trials and other duties
Cave said he does not know when he will
have time to consider the case. Cave
has issued an injunction preventing the
city from enforcing the ordinance until
the case is decided.
Time is not a matter of concern for
the plaintiffs, said Thomas Graham,
lawyer for opponents of the ordinance.
" I just want him ( Cave) to take all the
time necessary to come to a correct
ruling."
But Darwin Hindman, an attorney
who worked with the city counselors on
the case, would like a speedy decision.
" The delay is obviously working in
favor of those opposed to the or-dinance,"
said Hindman, who
represents Columbians Against
Throwaways, a citizens' group that
campaigned for passage of the or-dinance.
The three months that have passed
since the last evidence was submitted is
not really a long time in such . a
complex case, said Assistant City
Counselor Scott Snyder. " The city has
other, much older, cases still not
decided."
Twenty- si- x local bottlers and
distributers filed the lawsuit in June
1977 challenging the ordinance, which
requires at least a 5- c- ent deposit on all
aon- Hceturaab- le beer and carbonated
soft- drin- k containers sold within the
Cslambw city limits. Beverage dealers
would be required to accept clean,
empty containers and to refund the
deposit to customers.
The lawsuit asks Cave to declare the
ordinance unconstitutional and to
permanently prohibit the city from
enforcing it.
After a seven- da- y trial last June and
final arguments in December, Cave
( See APPEALS, Page 10A)
' : -
A fallow deer, an Eurasian deer with a fallow or
yellowish coat, catches a human scent recently at
Reed's Lake Resort property. The fallow deer is
Raymond R. Otnmn
one of 20 on the resort property. Such deer stand 3
feet ( 0.9 meters ) at the shoulder and have antlers
of2J2 feet ( 1.8 meters).
Kahn promises
food price watch
Meat prices will taper off
if left alone, adviser says
WASHINGTON ( UPI) The recent
" terribly painful increase" in food
prices resulting from market com-petition
and direct government in-terference
will just make matters
worse, administration inflation- fight- er
Alfred Kahn told Congress Wednesday.
But he pledged his Council on Wage
and Price Stability will closely watch
the behavior of food middlemen to
guard against unwarranted charges,
and will pressure government agencies
to buy less beef so that supplies can
build and ease the upward pressure on
prices.
While Kahn was testifying to two
House agriculture subcommittees.
Treasury Secretary Michael
Blumenthal told a House ap-propriations
subcommittee that " more
bad price news" is in store before
President Carter's anti- inflati- on
program can start taking hold the latter
part of this year.
Pointing up one of the thorniest
problems facing the administration,
Blumenthal said, " Wage restraint in
upcoming ' labor- managemen- t)
negotiations will be crucial if we are to
achieve the progress toward lower
rates of inflation that the situation
demands."
Blumenthal said a surge in wholesale
prices " has built up pressures which
will push up retail prices for the next
few mouths" and thus " more bad price
news is possible in the months to
come." 1
" Hopefully, however," he said, " the
policy actions already put in train will
result in some moderation as the year
progresses."
Kahn. in his testimony, said that
between the first of December and the
end of February, prices for food con-sumed
in the home went up at a 19.5
percent annual rate while all other
items rose only 10.3 percent
" For the most part." he said, " it
must be emphasized this recent,
terribly painful increase in food prices
has been the result of competitive
market forces, interference with which
could only make matters worse."
For example. Kahn said, he expects a
tapering off in retail prices for beef,
pork, and poultry, which rose during
those three months at the respective
rates of 72, 22 and 24 percent.
The beef situation will straighten
itself out as higher prices encourage
more livestock production, " provided
81 pJffl there is no attempt
BffliWiWwimM to impose limits,"
H H Under question- -
LWffT(& j criticized as in- -
ffl" 3J flationary some 1, JJiLjai ?' Jbb government ac- -
Bak ? h bons to restrict
HaS sm 5 sugar and cheese
fjjjjl By g imports, set milk
ggjjn policy and idle
gffffrjmmiliiiailini farmland.
ftjfllflr hesitate, if I were
BiRr not an adviser to
JllpiqfrtCTfr f the president and
Brafe - J I forced to be
mM w-- discreet, to call
WBL "" & some of those
mHHKT' JH advice he gave the
B , president on a bill
Blumenmai to increase sugar
prices, Kahn replied, " There's a point
at which a member of the president's
inner council of advisers should keep
his mouth shut."
While rejecting the idea of direct
government intervention in the food
marketplace, Kahn said the ad-ministration
can advise consumers on
how to economize and make sate there
is no unreasonable spread between
farm prices and those at the super-market.
In a related development. President
Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell,
said Wednesday that the ad-ministration's
new energy plans
expected to increase oil prices will
have a " largely adverse impact" or.
efforts to control inflation. Mlljlfl Columbia activists oppose draft
By Jonathan W. Poses
Missoarian staff writer
Pacifism may be most visible in times of war,
but for Columbia pacifists, nonviolent
resistance involves a continuing commitment
even in this era of relative peace for the United
States.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation, a national
organization, dedicates itself to nonviolent
resistance. At a recent meeting of the Columbia
chapter, 15 persons discussed a statement op-posing
the reinstatement of the draft. The
statement, which will appear in both of
Columbia's newspapers Friday, is meant to
makp the public aware of proposals to
regenerate the selective service rolls
something the pacifist group strongly opposes,
according to John Schuder, chairman of the
Columbia chapter.
The statement reads in part: " Because we are
opposed to further militarization of our society,
Because we want to make it more, not less
difficult for the leaders to involve us in any
foreign wars, Because we value freedom for the
young as well as for our older people. Because
we want to keep our nation from being nearly
torn apart as it was during the Vietnam
War ..." .
Initially, the statement was going to take up a
full page in each of the papers, but, Schuder
says, " due to a lack of financial support and the
amount of signatures, it will be smaller than
anticipated."
Schuder points out that the statement, which
is signed by members and nonmembers. is not
Imsiglftt
an official action on the part of the nationwide or
local organization.
The national group, as well as its Columbia
chapter, does speak out on issues in an official
capacity. For example, this month Columbia
pacifists wrfll appear on local television to rebut
a film, " Soviet Might, American Myth," shown
by all three local network stations. Produced by
the American Conservative Union, the film has
the point of view that the United States lags far
behind the Soviet Union in the arms race.
Under the equal time provision of federal
communications law, the Columbia pacifists
applied for, and received, the right to have a 30- min- ute
broadcast on two television stations in
response to the film. Four people, including one
of the editors of the War Resistor's League
magazine, will present the pacifists' point of
view.
The rebuttal will be shown at 6: 30 p. m. April
14 on channel 8 and at 10: 15 p. m. April 15 on
channel 17.
The day the rebuttal is broadcast on channel 17
is " Tax day," a day, according to longtime
pacifist and Columbia resident Lana Jacobs, on
which local protestors traditionally gather in
front of the post offices to hand out leaflets and
write letters to Congressmen. Pacifists oppose
the way in which taxpayers' money is spent, Ms.
Jacobs says, and this year is no different.
In addition to voicing dissent through protests,
nonviolent resisters use teach- in- s to inform the
public about a pacifist perspective on issues.
This month or next Richard Catlett may
conduct a teach- i- n on resisting income taxes
through non- payme- nt. Catlett. a 69- year-- old
World War II resister. recently served 60 days in
a Kansas City, Mo., jail for willful failure to pay
taxes. According to Catlett. up to 60 percent of
tax collection is allocated to defense- relate- d
policies. He refers to the United States as a
" warfare state."
The teach- i- n would show different types and
degrees of tax resistance, educate people as to
possible consequences of their actions and in-form
people about whom they should get in
touch with for aid and information.
But, Catlett says, people's energies are being
distracted by other activities.
" The momentum is not here now for a mass
resistance," Catlett says. " The leadership,
programs and goals are lacking. The meditation
groups, self- realizati- on activities and cults
reach a personal level, but fail to challenge
problems at the root, at the social decision-making
level."
That does not mean he is giving up. though,
nor does it mean that Ms. Jacobs or Schuder are
not serious about continuing their commitment
to pacifism.
" Always a few hard- cor- e folks demonstrate.
It's mostly for yourself, so maybe you can look
at yourself in the mirror." says Ms. Jacobs. She
was referring to the annual July 4 demon-stration
in front of the gates of Sedalia's
Whiteman Air Force Base, the fourth largest
nuclear base in the country .
When Ms. Jacobs is not demonstrating or
holding down her regular full- tim- e job as a
medical lab technician in Jefferson City, she is
lab director of Columbia's free medical clinic.
There she helps organize an extension of the
clinic's service, free dental care.
" It's an outgrowth of protests," she says. " We
are moving toward people- oriente- d things."
Ms. Jacobs, a 30- year-- old mother of two
daughters, says she feels that due to rising
prices and inflation. America will see a revival
of political activity and demonstrations within
five years. She also feels that " if they're stupid
enough to reinstitute the draft, well be out there
in the streets. Well be out before they institute
it, hoping to convince people of the dangers
involved in such a policy."
J I twm
I today
9 slbl Boone County Court meets,
gfafloor, County- cit- y Building.
1 p. m. Women's softbail
doubkbeader, Missouri vs. Central
afissouri State, Cosmos Park. .
4 pan. " You're a Good Man,
Charlie Brown," Stephens
Warehouse Theatre, adults 51.50,
students $ 1.25, children 12 and
under 75 cents.
4 p. m. Koonseberry Puppet
Theatre, Darnel Bocae Regioxal
Library, 100 W. Broadway , free.
5 sad 10: 33 p.- J- n. Jazz concert,
vibrr. pferaasx Gary Burton and fats
quartet, Columbia College Latmer
Auditorium, $ 3.50, $ 2.50 for
Cohanbia College students.
Br ISb ffmil & Hr I3S WSmM isSH BFT JB&.
gasffts ...- - 6- 7- A
Biwvfiu. .......- - " a98MgQJ303S ...... ......
Fespfco.,.- - ... IB
Insist toiisy
Nuclear Crisis
Federal investigators reported
Wednesday that a human error
mistakenly leaving two reactor
vafcres closed played a " key"
role in the nation's worst reactor
accident. With the worst of the
crisis over, thousands who had fled
the Middletown area retomed to
their homes, many saying that " I
dontthink it'll ever be the same."
In Washington Sen. Edward
Kennedy's health subcommittee
beard testimony on the accident
and criticized the Nuclear
Regulatory Comnrissioo's handling
of the matter. Stories on Page 5A.
And in Columbia, an industry
expert said that the Pennsylvania
iKiTdfirFt ftJHW? d not haxuper further
tfevetopffperrt of nuclear energy. See
Pegel2A.
Amin deserted by Libyan allies;
Taiizanian troops overran capital
NAIROBI, Kenya ( UPI) Tan- zani- an
troops raced into Uganda's
virtually defenseless capital of Kam-pala
from three sides Wednesday in a
drive to overthrow President Idi Amin
and his regime, one of the most brutal
in recent African history.
Rebel leaders reported the invasion
force smaBhfri into the city from the
south, north and west, purposely
ks? mg the eastern sector dear, as a
" corridor of safety" for fleeing troops
and civilians, to minimize bloodshed.
Abandoned by bis Libyan allies,
Amin reportedly was in Jinja, 40 miles
( 54 kilometers) east ofKampala, trying
to raDy his crumbling army, when the
decisive battle began.
But reacted by telephone, a resident
of Kampala said that Amin put in an
appearance in the capital Wednesday
afternoon ia an attempt to boost the
morale of its defamders and keep panic
CronijFradfog.
" The final assault has begun,"
declared leaders of the new govera- ment- in- exil- eT
the Ugandan National
liberation Front.
They reported the attacking army
had overrun Kampala's infamous
Makindye military barracks and prison
reputedly the site of hundreds of
tortorings and executions during
Amhi's dictatorial eight- ye- ar rule
and said the rest of the capital could fall
within hours.
Diplomats in Kampala said the
hundreds of troops from Libya who had
provided Kampala's last line of real
defense fled the Ugandan capital after
suffering heavy casualties in a battle
with the advancing army 20,000
Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles
ntus thousands of deserters from
Amin's forces.
The diplomats, who were situated in
the center of the capital, said it was
deserted Wednesday night, with a dusk--
to- da- wn curfew in force. They heard
shooting from the south, but were
unable to add to the reports by the
Ugandan rebel leaders, who said then- battlefiel- d
information had been
confirmed from the front.
Libyan leader Col. Moammar
Khadafy, who saw the five- mont- h war
in Uganda as a battle between his
Moslem ally, Amin, and Christian- le- d
rebels, sent nearly 2,( ffi0 soldiers to
Uganda in recent weeks and propped up
Amin's tottering regime with an airlift
of military supplies.
Officials of the Ugandan rebels,
issning their statements through their
exile beadsg68& ent in Dar es Saiaam)
Tanzania, said fhey were ready to take
over once Amin was driven out'
ABhenah Amin was in Jinja when
Tanzaaian wscsanss bseObsq sLStEBr
pals, is Ms latest nroostsKssMofe be
declared he was wffltag ' to die

3TAT UICTORZCM ; r-- r- v ,0
COLUMBIA. MQ. ; 5201 -- V
TIm Ynr o. 171 1. tnnl Marninti! It's Thursday. ln7 .7. I'PT 2 Sections 24 Pases 15 Cents
' Can- ban- 9
ordinance
still waits
for decision
By Pat BdUoghaBBen
Missomian staff writer
Two years ago today Columbia voters
approved an ordinance requiring
deposits on throwaway beverage
containers, but the so- call- ed " can- ban- ,"
locked in a lawsuit, never has
been enforced.
Since December the case has awaited
a decision from Circuit Judge John
Cave. Because of trials and other duties
Cave said he does not know when he will
have time to consider the case. Cave
has issued an injunction preventing the
city from enforcing the ordinance until
the case is decided.
Time is not a matter of concern for
the plaintiffs, said Thomas Graham,
lawyer for opponents of the ordinance.
" I just want him ( Cave) to take all the
time necessary to come to a correct
ruling."
But Darwin Hindman, an attorney
who worked with the city counselors on
the case, would like a speedy decision.
" The delay is obviously working in
favor of those opposed to the or-dinance,"
said Hindman, who
represents Columbians Against
Throwaways, a citizens' group that
campaigned for passage of the or-dinance.
The three months that have passed
since the last evidence was submitted is
not really a long time in such . a
complex case, said Assistant City
Counselor Scott Snyder. " The city has
other, much older, cases still not
decided."
Twenty- si- x local bottlers and
distributers filed the lawsuit in June
1977 challenging the ordinance, which
requires at least a 5- c- ent deposit on all
aon- Hceturaab- le beer and carbonated
soft- drin- k containers sold within the
Cslambw city limits. Beverage dealers
would be required to accept clean,
empty containers and to refund the
deposit to customers.
The lawsuit asks Cave to declare the
ordinance unconstitutional and to
permanently prohibit the city from
enforcing it.
After a seven- da- y trial last June and
final arguments in December, Cave
( See APPEALS, Page 10A)
' : -
A fallow deer, an Eurasian deer with a fallow or
yellowish coat, catches a human scent recently at
Reed's Lake Resort property. The fallow deer is
Raymond R. Otnmn
one of 20 on the resort property. Such deer stand 3
feet ( 0.9 meters ) at the shoulder and have antlers
of2J2 feet ( 1.8 meters).
Kahn promises
food price watch
Meat prices will taper off
if left alone, adviser says
WASHINGTON ( UPI) The recent
" terribly painful increase" in food
prices resulting from market com-petition
and direct government in-terference
will just make matters
worse, administration inflation- fight- er
Alfred Kahn told Congress Wednesday.
But he pledged his Council on Wage
and Price Stability will closely watch
the behavior of food middlemen to
guard against unwarranted charges,
and will pressure government agencies
to buy less beef so that supplies can
build and ease the upward pressure on
prices.
While Kahn was testifying to two
House agriculture subcommittees.
Treasury Secretary Michael
Blumenthal told a House ap-propriations
subcommittee that " more
bad price news" is in store before
President Carter's anti- inflati- on
program can start taking hold the latter
part of this year.
Pointing up one of the thorniest
problems facing the administration,
Blumenthal said, " Wage restraint in
upcoming ' labor- managemen- t)
negotiations will be crucial if we are to
achieve the progress toward lower
rates of inflation that the situation
demands."
Blumenthal said a surge in wholesale
prices " has built up pressures which
will push up retail prices for the next
few mouths" and thus " more bad price
news is possible in the months to
come." 1
" Hopefully, however," he said, " the
policy actions already put in train will
result in some moderation as the year
progresses."
Kahn. in his testimony, said that
between the first of December and the
end of February, prices for food con-sumed
in the home went up at a 19.5
percent annual rate while all other
items rose only 10.3 percent
" For the most part." he said, " it
must be emphasized this recent,
terribly painful increase in food prices
has been the result of competitive
market forces, interference with which
could only make matters worse."
For example. Kahn said, he expects a
tapering off in retail prices for beef,
pork, and poultry, which rose during
those three months at the respective
rates of 72, 22 and 24 percent.
The beef situation will straighten
itself out as higher prices encourage
more livestock production, " provided
81 pJffl there is no attempt
BffliWiWwimM to impose limits,"
H H Under question- -
LWffT(& j criticized as in- -
ffl" 3J flationary some 1, JJiLjai ?' Jbb government ac- -
Bak ? h bons to restrict
HaS sm 5 sugar and cheese
fjjjjl By g imports, set milk
ggjjn policy and idle
gffffrjmmiliiiailini farmland.
ftjfllflr hesitate, if I were
BiRr not an adviser to
JllpiqfrtCTfr f the president and
Brafe - J I forced to be
mM w-- discreet, to call
WBL "" & some of those
mHHKT' JH advice he gave the
B , president on a bill
Blumenmai to increase sugar
prices, Kahn replied, " There's a point
at which a member of the president's
inner council of advisers should keep
his mouth shut."
While rejecting the idea of direct
government intervention in the food
marketplace, Kahn said the ad-ministration
can advise consumers on
how to economize and make sate there
is no unreasonable spread between
farm prices and those at the super-market.
In a related development. President
Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell,
said Wednesday that the ad-ministration's
new energy plans
expected to increase oil prices will
have a " largely adverse impact" or.
efforts to control inflation. Mlljlfl Columbia activists oppose draft
By Jonathan W. Poses
Missoarian staff writer
Pacifism may be most visible in times of war,
but for Columbia pacifists, nonviolent
resistance involves a continuing commitment
even in this era of relative peace for the United
States.
The Fellowship of Reconciliation, a national
organization, dedicates itself to nonviolent
resistance. At a recent meeting of the Columbia
chapter, 15 persons discussed a statement op-posing
the reinstatement of the draft. The
statement, which will appear in both of
Columbia's newspapers Friday, is meant to
makp the public aware of proposals to
regenerate the selective service rolls
something the pacifist group strongly opposes,
according to John Schuder, chairman of the
Columbia chapter.
The statement reads in part: " Because we are
opposed to further militarization of our society,
Because we want to make it more, not less
difficult for the leaders to involve us in any
foreign wars, Because we value freedom for the
young as well as for our older people. Because
we want to keep our nation from being nearly
torn apart as it was during the Vietnam
War ..." .
Initially, the statement was going to take up a
full page in each of the papers, but, Schuder
says, " due to a lack of financial support and the
amount of signatures, it will be smaller than
anticipated."
Schuder points out that the statement, which
is signed by members and nonmembers. is not
Imsiglftt
an official action on the part of the nationwide or
local organization.
The national group, as well as its Columbia
chapter, does speak out on issues in an official
capacity. For example, this month Columbia
pacifists wrfll appear on local television to rebut
a film, " Soviet Might, American Myth," shown
by all three local network stations. Produced by
the American Conservative Union, the film has
the point of view that the United States lags far
behind the Soviet Union in the arms race.
Under the equal time provision of federal
communications law, the Columbia pacifists
applied for, and received, the right to have a 30- min- ute
broadcast on two television stations in
response to the film. Four people, including one
of the editors of the War Resistor's League
magazine, will present the pacifists' point of
view.
The rebuttal will be shown at 6: 30 p. m. April
14 on channel 8 and at 10: 15 p. m. April 15 on
channel 17.
The day the rebuttal is broadcast on channel 17
is " Tax day," a day, according to longtime
pacifist and Columbia resident Lana Jacobs, on
which local protestors traditionally gather in
front of the post offices to hand out leaflets and
write letters to Congressmen. Pacifists oppose
the way in which taxpayers' money is spent, Ms.
Jacobs says, and this year is no different.
In addition to voicing dissent through protests,
nonviolent resisters use teach- in- s to inform the
public about a pacifist perspective on issues.
This month or next Richard Catlett may
conduct a teach- i- n on resisting income taxes
through non- payme- nt. Catlett. a 69- year-- old
World War II resister. recently served 60 days in
a Kansas City, Mo., jail for willful failure to pay
taxes. According to Catlett. up to 60 percent of
tax collection is allocated to defense- relate- d
policies. He refers to the United States as a
" warfare state."
The teach- i- n would show different types and
degrees of tax resistance, educate people as to
possible consequences of their actions and in-form
people about whom they should get in
touch with for aid and information.
But, Catlett says, people's energies are being
distracted by other activities.
" The momentum is not here now for a mass
resistance," Catlett says. " The leadership,
programs and goals are lacking. The meditation
groups, self- realizati- on activities and cults
reach a personal level, but fail to challenge
problems at the root, at the social decision-making
level."
That does not mean he is giving up. though,
nor does it mean that Ms. Jacobs or Schuder are
not serious about continuing their commitment
to pacifism.
" Always a few hard- cor- e folks demonstrate.
It's mostly for yourself, so maybe you can look
at yourself in the mirror." says Ms. Jacobs. She
was referring to the annual July 4 demon-stration
in front of the gates of Sedalia's
Whiteman Air Force Base, the fourth largest
nuclear base in the country .
When Ms. Jacobs is not demonstrating or
holding down her regular full- tim- e job as a
medical lab technician in Jefferson City, she is
lab director of Columbia's free medical clinic.
There she helps organize an extension of the
clinic's service, free dental care.
" It's an outgrowth of protests," she says. " We
are moving toward people- oriente- d things."
Ms. Jacobs, a 30- year-- old mother of two
daughters, says she feels that due to rising
prices and inflation. America will see a revival
of political activity and demonstrations within
five years. She also feels that " if they're stupid
enough to reinstitute the draft, well be out there
in the streets. Well be out before they institute
it, hoping to convince people of the dangers
involved in such a policy."
J I twm
I today
9 slbl Boone County Court meets,
gfafloor, County- cit- y Building.
1 p. m. Women's softbail
doubkbeader, Missouri vs. Central
afissouri State, Cosmos Park. .
4 pan. " You're a Good Man,
Charlie Brown," Stephens
Warehouse Theatre, adults 51.50,
students $ 1.25, children 12 and
under 75 cents.
4 p. m. Koonseberry Puppet
Theatre, Darnel Bocae Regioxal
Library, 100 W. Broadway , free.
5 sad 10: 33 p.- J- n. Jazz concert,
vibrr. pferaasx Gary Burton and fats
quartet, Columbia College Latmer
Auditorium, $ 3.50, $ 2.50 for
Cohanbia College students.
Br ISb ffmil & Hr I3S WSmM isSH BFT JB&.
gasffts ...- - 6- 7- A
Biwvfiu. .......- - " a98MgQJ303S ...... ......
Fespfco.,.- - ... IB
Insist toiisy
Nuclear Crisis
Federal investigators reported
Wednesday that a human error
mistakenly leaving two reactor
vafcres closed played a " key"
role in the nation's worst reactor
accident. With the worst of the
crisis over, thousands who had fled
the Middletown area retomed to
their homes, many saying that " I
dontthink it'll ever be the same."
In Washington Sen. Edward
Kennedy's health subcommittee
beard testimony on the accident
and criticized the Nuclear
Regulatory Comnrissioo's handling
of the matter. Stories on Page 5A.
And in Columbia, an industry
expert said that the Pennsylvania
iKiTdfirFt ftJHW? d not haxuper further
tfevetopffperrt of nuclear energy. See
Pegel2A.
Amin deserted by Libyan allies;
Taiizanian troops overran capital
NAIROBI, Kenya ( UPI) Tan- zani- an
troops raced into Uganda's
virtually defenseless capital of Kam-pala
from three sides Wednesday in a
drive to overthrow President Idi Amin
and his regime, one of the most brutal
in recent African history.
Rebel leaders reported the invasion
force smaBhfri into the city from the
south, north and west, purposely
ks? mg the eastern sector dear, as a
" corridor of safety" for fleeing troops
and civilians, to minimize bloodshed.
Abandoned by bis Libyan allies,
Amin reportedly was in Jinja, 40 miles
( 54 kilometers) east ofKampala, trying
to raDy his crumbling army, when the
decisive battle began.
But reacted by telephone, a resident
of Kampala said that Amin put in an
appearance in the capital Wednesday
afternoon ia an attempt to boost the
morale of its defamders and keep panic
CronijFradfog.
" The final assault has begun,"
declared leaders of the new govera- ment- in- exil- eT
the Ugandan National
liberation Front.
They reported the attacking army
had overrun Kampala's infamous
Makindye military barracks and prison
reputedly the site of hundreds of
tortorings and executions during
Amhi's dictatorial eight- ye- ar rule
and said the rest of the capital could fall
within hours.
Diplomats in Kampala said the
hundreds of troops from Libya who had
provided Kampala's last line of real
defense fled the Ugandan capital after
suffering heavy casualties in a battle
with the advancing army 20,000
Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles
ntus thousands of deserters from
Amin's forces.
The diplomats, who were situated in
the center of the capital, said it was
deserted Wednesday night, with a dusk--
to- da- wn curfew in force. They heard
shooting from the south, but were
unable to add to the reports by the
Ugandan rebel leaders, who said then- battlefiel- d
information had been
confirmed from the front.
Libyan leader Col. Moammar
Khadafy, who saw the five- mont- h war
in Uganda as a battle between his
Moslem ally, Amin, and Christian- le- d
rebels, sent nearly 2,( ffi0 soldiers to
Uganda in recent weeks and propped up
Amin's tottering regime with an airlift
of military supplies.
Officials of the Ugandan rebels,
issning their statements through their
exile beadsg68& ent in Dar es Saiaam)
Tanzania, said fhey were ready to take
over once Amin was driven out'
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